Highlights: Microsoft revamps its Live Search engine — Microsoft tonight unveiled the widely rumored revamp of its Live Search engine. Here's a summary of the news: — The company says it has made improvements in relevance, the measure of how closely the results match a searcher's intent.

MICROSOFT PLAYS CATCH UP ON SEARCH — Microsoft unveiled on Wednesday the first significant changes to its Live search site since it was launched over a year ago, adding new shopping, entertainment and health verticals and improving video search. But most of the changes …

Five Reasons Why The Mobile Web Sucks — I've had it with all the hype about mobile being the next big thing — more to the point, I've had it with the mobile web. Here are five reasons why the web on the go still has a long way to go. — 1. Wireless carrier networks are SLOW

Yahoo! to Close Its Podcasting Site — Two years to the month after launching its large podcast search and listening site, Yahoo! has announced that Yahoo! Podcasts will cease operation on Halloween, October 31st. The site never came out of Beta before the plug was pulled.

LinkedIn finally adds user photos — On Friday, the social network for professionals, LinkedIn, will go live with its newest feature: User photos. — Why did it take four years to add a feature already offered by every other social network? LinkedIn claims recent user requests for the feature drove the decision.

Up next for Apple: the return of the Newton — Apple Inc, which helped spawn the PDA market with its Newton MessagePad line in the early '90s, plans to give the concept another go with a modern day reincarnation of the old fan favorite based on the company's new mutli-touch technology, AppleInsider has learned.

A Cellphone Without Borders — It's amazing the way the Internet keeps toppling traditional businesses. Telegrams have gone away. Music CD sales are tanking. Newspapers are hurting. — One especially lucrative business, however, has somehow escaped the Internet's notice so far: international cellphone calls.

Microsoft, Google square off in Washington — Google and Microsoft's bitter and long-standing rivalry in the Internet search and advertising markets is spilling over into Washington. — Senior executives from both companies are scheduled to show up before a U.S. Senate panel on Thursday afternoon …

Gateway One all-in-one desktop breaks cover — A whole slew of sites this morning spilled out info on Gateway's new "One" PC, which Gateway was teasing us about the other day. Due to be announced tomorrow at Digital Life, the Gateway One is a sleek little all-in-one number …

Pro-business watchdog targets Google for enabling video piracy — Google's doing nothing about rampant copyright violations and may have become the storage medium of choice for movie pirates. That's the conclusion of an open letter (PDF) from the National Legal and Policy Center, a pro-business watchdog group.

Why does Apple get a free ride? — I really don't want to get into the usual pissing match that seems to occur whenever someone fails to bow down and worship Steve Jobs' every move, but I can't help myself. Why aren't we seeing more outrage — okay, even a little bit of outrage …

The Future of Computing, According to Intel — Massively multicore processors will enable smarter computers that can infer our activities. — Intel recently demonstrated a new, low-power computer chip that will use as many as eight cores, or processing units.

Surprise: MSN Has Built the Video Site of the Future — There are big changes underway over at MSN Video, some of which represent a real look forward for the industry. It's hard to believe, and it isn't pretty, but this is a site you've got to check out. The site's design, full screen player and advertising model are big.